The annual gay pride parade in Istanbul began in 2003 with a few dozen marchers and grew in recent years to several thousand annually. On Sunday, however, the parade was attacked by police and prevented from proceeding. Was this move by the municipal branch of the ...

Families' fury grows as a dozen Britons still to be identified, with British death toll from Tunisia shooting expected to be more than 30 A national one minute's silence to commemorate the victims of the Tunisia beach attack will be held
A video shows the terrifyi...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning a military intervention into northern Syria to prevent Syrian Kurds from forming their own state there, despite concerns among his own generals and possible criticism from Washington and other NATO allies, accordi...

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old president has challenged President Barack Obama by asking his hand in his weekly radio interview with Zimbabwe’s national radio on Saturday.
“I’ve just concluded since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates ...

Terrorists both from Islamic State and domestic political rebels have put Turkey on high alert
Terrifying travel advice has been issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, claiming terrorist groups are actively plotting attacks in the country.
The warning ...

ISTANBUL—The Islamic State’s assault on the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey’s border is putting Ankara under political fire.
A co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP, Figen Yüksekdağ, says there is a high probability that Ankara facilitated the attack, claiming it ...

Families of Bahraini political prisoners say their children and relatives are suffering from horrible torture and sexual abuse in Al Khalifa regime jails. Bahrain, a tiny Arab Gulf archipelago has been the scene of popular revolution against Al Khalifa dynasty,...

A gunman disguised as a bather, with an automatic weapon concealed under a beach umbrella he carried, raked a seaside hotel’s shore and pool area with bullets on Friday, killing at least 37 people, many of them European visitors, and injuring dozens more, Tunisian ...

Kuwaiti authorities on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 27 people as a Saudi citizen who flew into the Gulf nation just hours before he blew himself up.
Police have begun making arrests in connection with Friday'...

Islamic State fighters who launched a surprise attack on a Syrian border town massacred more than 200 civilians, including women and children, before they were killed or driven out by Kurdish forces, activists said on Saturday.
Kurdish activist Mustafa Bali, the B...